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00.  One is the Magus: twain His forces: four Hisweapons. These are the Seven Spirits of Unrighteousness; seven vulturesof evil. Thus is the art and craft of the Magus but glamour. How shallHe destroy Himself?
 
0.  Yet the Magus hath power upon the Mother bothdirectly and through Love. And the Magus is Love, and bindeth togetherThat and This in His Conjuration.
 
1.  In the beginning doth the Magus speak Truth,and send forth Illusion and Falsehood to enslave the soul. Yet thereinis the Mystery of Redemption.
 
2.  By His Wisdom made He the Worlds; the Word thatis God is none other than He.
 
3.  How then shall He end His speech with Silence?For He is Speech.
 
4.  He is the First and the Last. How shall He ceaseto number Himself?
 
5.  By a Magus is this writing made known throughthe mind of a Magister. The one uttereth clearly, and the other understandeth;yet  the Word is falsehood, and the Understanding darkness. And thissaying is Of All Truth.
 
6.  Nevertheless it is written; for there be timesof darkness, and this as a lamp therein.
 
7.  With the Wand createth He.
 
8.  With the Cup preserveth He.
 
9.  With the Dagger destroyeth He.
 
10.  With the Coin redeemeth He.
 
11.  His weapons fulfil the wheel; and on What Axlethat turneth is not known unto Him.
 
12.  From all these actions must He cease beforethe curse of His Grade is uplifted from Him. Before He attain to That whichexisteth without Form.
 
13.  And if at this time He be manifested upon earthas a Man, and therefore is this present writing, let this be His method,that the curse of His grade, and the burden of His attainment, be upliftedfrom Him.
 
14.  Let Him beware of abstinence from action. Forthe curse of His grade is that He must speak Truth, that the Falsehoodthereof may enslave the souls of men. Let Him then utter that without Fear,that  the Law may be fulfilled. And according to His Original Naturewill  that law be shapen, so that one may declare gentleness and quietness, being an Hindu; and another fierceness and servility, being a Jew; andyet another ardour and manliness, being an Arab. Yet this matter toucheththe mystery of Incarnation, and is not here to be declared.
 
15.  Now the grade of a Magister teacheth the Mysteryof Sorrow, and the grade of a Magus the Mystery of Change, and the gradeof Ipsissimus the Mystery of Selflessness, which is called also the Mysteryof Pan.
 
16.  Let the Magus then contemplate each in turn,raising it to the ultimate power of Infinity. Wherein Sorrow is Joy, andChange is Stability, and Selflessness is Self. For the interplay of theparts hath no action upon the whole. And this contemplation shall be performednot by simple meditation ---how much less then by reason!--- but by themethod which shall have been given unto Him in His initiation to the Grade.
 
17.  Following which method, it shall be easy forHim to combine that trinity from its elements, and further to combine Sat-Chit-Ananda,and Light, Love, Life, hree by three into nine that are one, in which meditationsuccess shall be That which was first adumbrated to Him in the grade ofPracticus (which reflecteth Mercury into the lowest world) in Liber XXVII,"Here is Nothing under its three Forms."
 
18.  And this is the Opening of the Grade of Ipsissimus,and by the Buddhists it is called the trance Nerodha-Samapatti.
 
19.  And woe, woe, woe, yea woe, and again woe,woe, woe unto seven times be His that preacheth not His law to men!
 
20.  And woe also be unto Him that refuseth thecurse of the grade of a Magus, and the burden of the Attainment thereof.
 
21.  And in the word CHAOS let the Book be sealed;yea, let the Book be sealed.